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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ageing dams in India, US, other nations pose growing threat: UN report

Ageing dams in India, US, other nations pose growing threat: UN report

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published Published on Jan 23, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 25, 2021

-PTI/ The New Indian Express

The analysis includes dam decommissioning or ageing case studies from the USA, France, Canada, India, Japan, and Zambia and Zimbabwe.

NEW YORK: Over a thousand large dams in India will be roughly 50 years old in 2025 and such aging embankments across the world pose a growing threat, according to a UN report which notes that by 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of dams built in the 20th century.

The report, titled 'Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk' and compiled by United Nations University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, says most of the 58,700 large dams worldwide were constructed between 1930 and 1970 with a design life of 50 to 100 years.

It said at 50 years, a large concrete dam "would most probably begin to express signs of ageing."

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PTI/ The New Indian Express, 23 January, 2021, https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2021/jan/23/ageing-dams-in-india-us-other-nations-pose-growing-threat-un-report-2254182.html?fbclid=IwAR2RTuJfGQRF2z-nLZscNOCYtESnGU32MeliTiATWtcYfLzt5y6CEk-mIqk


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